86049 - PUBLIC MANAGEMENT

Learning outcomes

In the last decades, the public sector has been involved in a great process of change that has brought to the development of a new research paradigm, the New Public Management. The course will focus on theoretical, operative and critical aspects of the public sector transformation considering the different strands originated by the New Public Management such as New Public Financial Management, New Public Governance, Citizen Engagement and Public Value. At the end of the course, the students should be able to frame, understand and discuss the changes that have recently involved the public sector at national and international level in the grater transformation process of the public administration as a whole.

Course contents

 

• Introduction to management
• Private versus public management
• Performance Management in the Public Sector
• The New Public Management, the Public Governance and the Neo-Weberian State
• Citizen engagement
• The Creation and co-creation of Public Value
• Collaborative Governance in times of uncertainty
  
• Strategic Planning in the Public Sector: processes and tools
• The Strategic Thinking: meaning and underlying variables
• How to create an effective Strategic Plan
• A comparative study on International Strategic Plans

Readings/Bibliography

Bryson J.M., George B., Strategic Planning for Public and Nonprofit Organizations: A Guide to Strengthening and Sustaining Organizational Achievement, 2024

Van Dooren, W., Bouckaert, G., & Halligan, J. (2015). Performance Management in the Public Sector. Routledge. [chapters 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9]

Ongaro E., Barbati C., Di Mascio F, Longo F., Natalini A, The Craft of the Italian State: Public Administration in Italy in Political and Historical Context, Spring, 2024

Teaching methods

Lectures, case studies and workshops held by international speakers.

Assessment methods

The exam will be split into two written parts. The final grade will be the average of the two parts. Attending students will have the opportunity to complete group projects. The evaluation of the project enables students to add point to the mark achieved in the written examination.

For non-attending students the assessment is based on a full written exam organized at the end of the entire course.

Teaching tools

The teaching tools are slides, exercises, projector and blackboard.

Students will have access to the teaching material uploaded on the Virtuale platform: https://virtuale.unibo.it/

Office hours

See the website of Luca Mazzara